Activate the Aero interface in Vista Home Basic
Just a quick tip today. If you bought or received Windows Vista Home Basic you probably have noticed that you cannot activate the Aero interface and wondered why that is the case. If you did not know, Windows Vista Home Basic does not ship with the Aero interface. That is at least what Microsoft wants you to believe. There is however a way to activate the Aero interface in this operating system.
To do that you need to edit two registry keys and restart your computer afterwards. You find both keys in the registry under Hkey_Current_User \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ DWM \ Change the values of the entry Composition to 1 and the value of CompositionPolicy to 0 and restart your computer afterwards.
Aero can then be selected by right-clicking your desktop and selecting personalize from the menu. Switch to Colors and Appearance and click on Classic Appearance Properties.. and choose Windows Vista Aero from the menu.
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August 14th, 2007 03:51
LOL microsoft takin the shortcuts again….
this is almost as bad as the OEM key issue that is letting thousands use vista free.
(if you dont know what im talking about, look up OEM vista hack. i will not provide details or anyhting about it. i have a legal version of vista… but its still worth a LOL)
June 23rd, 2008 15:53
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